The Business Secretary is facing anger in his home county after lifting a ban on fracking.
Image caption,British Geographical Survey maps show there could be shale gas under his constituency, but although licences have been granted in North East Somerset, no drilling has taken place.
Member of Parents for Future UK, Charlotte Howell-Jones, who organised the demonstration, said: "We're here to say that as communities we don't want fracking, we don't want new oil and gas, we want clean, cheap renewable energy. "Fracking takes a lot more energy to get the shale gas out of the ground, a lot more than oil and gas, renewable energy is now nine times cheaper than UK gas, and these oil and gas fields are going to take ages to come on board, so renewable energy is actually the answer."
Prime Minister Liz Truss has backed fracking as a way to help boost the UK's domestic gas supplies during a time of skyrocketing energy prices.
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